One skill point per second, I turn fireballs into forbidden spells.

Chapter 749 The Ultimate Game of Chess

Just by hearing this, you can tell that this parallel planet a thousand years in the future has never played card-based strategy games.

At first glance, the challenger and the puppet controlled by the NPC have very different stats. With the same amount of health, the challenger is at a great disadvantage.

But with just a little thought, these disadvantages can vanish into nothingness.

After all, NPCs are different from players. They don't release skills at the right time. NPCs usually just use whatever skills they have available.

When facing a situation where the opponent's attack speed is suppressed, it's not always better to release skills as quickly as possible, such as with the Guardian Puppet.

The Guardian Puppet possesses the skill effect of Focus, and is not targeted when casting skills. It is also immune to control effects, making it the best choice to place the Guardian Puppet in the third position.

By placing it in this position, the NPC's charm puppet will not have the problem of its casting speed being slower than that of the guardian puppet, and Lin Yi can completely absorb the charm puppet's control effects.

Therefore, Lin Yi adopted this stance.

Lin Yi placed the three front-row positions 1, 4, and 7 on the far right. To improve targeting and eliminate the healing puppet that could potentially turn the tide of the battle as soon as possible, Lin Yi placed the confusion, healing, and blinding puppets in the bottom three positions 7, 8, and 9.

The guardian puppet was placed in the middle row, in the last position, number 6.

With 20 energy points remaining, Lin Yi slowly released them.

Mo Cai's guardian puppet is in the eighth position and cannot be interrupted when casting skills.

Then it was the enemy's turn to move their first-position guardian puppet, which successfully drained 300 health points from Lin Yi's guardian puppet.

"Don't worry, nothing is impossible. So what if our attributes are a bit worse than theirs? It's not a big deal. Just watch how you play."

Now that things have come to this, it seems the only option left is to pray that Mo Cai can pass the test smoothly.

The enemy healing puppet's health has increased from 3000 to 2700.

Bad opportunity!
Unfortunately, none of the NPCs have a mechanism that guarantees they will use an interrupt skill whenever a player uses a skill.

The Chaos Puppet struck first, delivering a small blow to the enemy's healing puppet, reducing its health from 2100 to 1800.

However, an NPC is still an NPC, and the priority of releasing skills is not flawed.

The opponent's puppet has eight times the health of your own puppet. If the healing puppet releases its skill, the opponent's puppet can instantly recover 3000 health points.

The speed at which it releases skills is naturally faster than that of the Chaotic Puppet, which is in the first position.

At the start of this operation, the opportunity to act was given to the NPC's Chaotic Puppet No. 7.

Mo Cai must make the Chaos Puppet's skills retreat into heat along with its own skills.

That was when the skill icon under the healing puppet's head had just lit up, Lin Yi controlled his chaos puppet to lock onto the enemy's healing puppet, while his own chaos skill retreated into a two-round cooldown.

Immediately afterwards, the NPC's chaotic puppet action attacked Lin Yi's guardian puppet again, successfully draining 300 points of health from the guardian puppet and reducing Mo Cai's guardian puppet to more than half health.
Secondly, it's no longer the control effect of the blinding puppet.

After exchanging attacks again, Lin Yi's seventh-position healing puppet followed closely, dealing 300 points of damage to the enemy's healing puppet and successfully reducing its health to half.

That was when the skill icon lit up under Lin Yi's guardian puppet's head, the enemy's chaotic puppet immediately released an interrupt skill, attempting to interrupt Lin Yi's guardian puppet's skill.

With the exchange of offense and defense complete, the round has reached its seventh.

The guardian puppet in position 6 launched an attack, hitting the opponent's guardian puppet and dealing 300 damage, successfully reducing the opponent's guardian puppet's health from 3000 to 2700.

Before both sides had used all their skills, only the special attack that could be used once per turn remained.

This results in the following positioning: the Charm, Heal, Guardian, and Blind puppets are positioned in groups of 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively.

Just as the timer reached zero, Mo Cai decisively pressed the skill button for the guardian puppet. Given such stringent requirements, and the demanding condition of achieving victory within 12 rounds, Lin Yi was absolutely certain that he could get the healing puppet to use its skill.

As the lights came on, the entire theater was illuminated.

The opportunity to attack was once again given to Lin Yi.

While interrupting the opponent's healing effect, it also inflicts a two-turn confusion effect on the enemy's healing puppet, causing it to attack its own teammates during its turn.

This means that both sides can release two skills.

Although he gained a certain advantage in the first round, the opponent did not have any protective skills. With his own protective skills retreating to the 2-round cooling-off state, how could Lin Yi have defended in the previous round?

Before successfully using the Guardian skill, the Guardian Puppet's evasion rate reached 100%. Therefore, the NPC's Guardian Puppet did not cause any damage to Lin Yi's Guardian Puppet during that action.

Because both sides only had 20 energy points, even without the remaining eight skills entering cooldown, they were still able to unleash them in that round.

Successfully immune to the control effects of the Chaos Puppet.

Nangong Ling and Sun Xiaochuan both had worried expressions. If they knew Lin Yi well enough, they would both want to persuade him to give up the challenge and skip the level.

The opponent's healing puppet is in position seven.

Four puppets were revealed behind the crowd.

Because the player's own puppet has lost a certain amount of health, the healing puppet will prioritize using healing skills to replenish its own health.

Even without a counter-targeting effect, the puppet's attack will be drawn to the guardian puppet's body by the taunt effect, and the attack will be dodged again.

Before Lin Yi's puppet began its action, it was the NPC's first-position guardian puppet's turn to launch a retreat attack.

Just moments ago, the skill was successfully released. Lin Yi's eighth and seventh positions, the Guardian Puppet and the Blinding Puppet, were both blinded, making it possible to hit the enemy.

Because Lin Yi's puppet was slower, Mo Cai's chaotic puppet in position one launched the first attack, targeting the enemy's healing puppet in the same position, successfully hitting it and dealing 300 points of damage.

Focus effect triggered.

dodge!

The blinding puppet's skill icon lit up simultaneously. Because he had no other interrupt skills available, Lin Yi had no choice but to let it release its skill first.

Next, it's the turn of the tables again.

The opportunity to act was given to Lin Yi again. Lin Yi's healing puppet launched a special attack, hitting the healing puppet at the top of the NPC puppets and reducing its health from 2700 to 2400.

The previous moment, the guardian skill was successfully triggered.

The skill of healing puppets is quite crucial.

However, with Lin Yi's meticulous planning, everything turned out to be worthwhile.

As the countdown reached zero, the battle ended.

Due to the effect of the guardian skill, Lin Yi did not lose any health points in that round, but the opponent's healing puppet dealt 2100 damage.

That time, neither side had 40 energy points at the start.

The two puppets that were randomly blinded by the previous player showed no sign of slowing down, and continued to move backward in no particular order as the rounds changed.

(End of this chapter)